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Towards a just society: the Trudeau years
Par Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Tom Axworthy. 1990
This collection of essays, edited by Pierre Trudeau and Thomas Axworthy, offers a controversial perspective on the challenges that Canada…
must face if the country is to survive and prosper. Essayists include Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Marc Lalonde, and historian Ramsay Cook. They cover the Trudeau government's sixteen years in power, patriation of the constitution, and the importance of a federalist state.Too much and not the mood: essays
Par Durga Chew-Bose. 2017
Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philosophical, and occasionally brooding, thoughts. The result is a lyrical and piercingly…
insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Invites readers to join in her search for a clearer understanding of who we are and the world we live in. An exploration of what it means to be a young first-generation writer today, shutting out the din in order to find her own voice. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe: Essays On The Human Side Of Science
Par Alan P Lightman. 1984
Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women…
are marginalized even within national discussions about inequality. This book takes on what it means to "be" a black woman today. 2018. Uniform title: Essays.The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 (Virago Modern Classics #2312)
Par Rebecca West, Jane Marcus. 1983
In this collection of early writings, beginning when Rebecca West was just eighteen years old, Jane Marcus sheds light on…
one of the foremost feminist and political thinkers of our time. West’s essays, reviews, and public correspondence tackle many subjects, including politics, suffrage, education, morality and ethics, the arts, and social figures of the day. 1983.The words we live by: the creeds, mottoes, and pledges that have shaped America
Par Brian Burrell. 1997
In this anthology of major texts that have influenced life in the United States, the author compiles works ranging from…
the Golden Rule to the Mafia initiation oath. What began as a family hobby evolved into this collection of essays revolving around popular sayings. 1997.The way we are
Par Margaret Visser. 1994
This collection of Visser's essays examines aspects of everyday life, and what they reveal about us. Common habits such as…
drinking coffee and smoking are presented as modern versions of initiation rites which are difficult to give up, even though they are shunned by society itself. Ordinary objects and typical behaviour are dissected to reveal an image of our modern selves - why we are the way we are, and how we became this way. 1994.The strangers next door
Par Edith Iglauer. 1991
Collection of writings by the author of 'Fishing with John', covers fifty years and a range of subjects including wartime…
press meetings with Eleanor Roosevelt, stories from the buildings of New York, visits to Inuit cooperatives, and interviews with several Canadians, including Pierre Trudeau, Hubert Evans, M. Wylie Blanchet, Arthur Erickson, and Bill Reid. 1991.The tenth muse: the pursuit of earth science
Par Ronald B Parker. 1986
The sun climbs slow: the International Criminal Court and the search for justice
Par Erna Paris. 2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent tribunal of its kind, mandated to challenge criminal impunity on the…
part of national leaders and to promote accountability in world affairs. Independent and transnational, its indictments cannot be vetoed in the Security Council. Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.The taste of things
Par Joanne Kates. 1987
Written by restaurant critic and food writer Joanne Kates, this humorous and informative book includes autobiographical essays and stories of…
Joanne's travels, as well as essays on food allergies, modern food production, anorexia, and food banks. 1987.The rights of nature: a legal revolution that could save the world
Par David R Boyd. 2017
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings…
of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species--from birds to lions--have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems--rivers, forests, mountains, and more--have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. 2017.The Red Smith reader
Par Red Smith, Dave Anderson. 1982
Omnibus of the late Pulitzer Prize-winner's sports columns, many chosen from personal scrapbooks and never collected before. Organized by subject,…
it includes chapters on racing, football, baseball, fishing, boxing, and various personalities. 1982.The portable Emerson
Par Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
This selection of poetry and essays by Emerson includes: "The American scholar", his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society…
at Harvard; his controversial 1838 address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School; and his first published work, "Nature", which contains the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy. 1981.The pleasures of the past
Par David Cannadine. 1990
This collection of 30 essays covers a wide range of issues from 19th- and 20th-century British history. The book's content…
ranges from essays on the monarchy, political ambitions and urban decay, through to studies of time, food and sex. It also includes an examination of some major personalities. 1990.The most wonderful books: writers on discovering the pleasures of reading
Par Emilie Buchwald, Ed Dorris Michael. 1997
A collection of short essays by fifty-seven authors who reflect on favourite childhood books or the significance of reading. Sherman…
Alexie recalls that he learned to read with a Superman comic book. Confined to her house by polio, Bapsi Sidhwa discovered "an alternate existence" in books. Contains brief biographical notes on contributors. 1997.The mortgaged heart
Par Carson McCullers. 1971
The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze (Mandarin Humour Ser.)
Par James Thurber. 1992
First published in 1935, this volume contains six essays about language and people, described by the author as "mainly humorous,…
but with a few kind of sad ones mixed in." 1992.The master spirit of the age: Canadian engineers and the politics of professionalism, 1887-1922
Par J. Rodney Millard. 1988
Explores the issues that shaped engineers' perception of their work and its place in society. Determined to raise their status,…
schools and societies were organized and, eventually, engineers obtained licensing and regulatory powers. c1988.The making of a country lawyer: An Autobiography
Par Gerry Spence. 1996
Chronicles Spence's first forty years, before he gained fame for winning a multimillion-dollar verdict on behalf of the dead plutonium…
worker Karen Silkwood. Tells of his mother's suicide when Spence was ten, his own alcoholism, and his affair with the woman who became his second wife. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996.